Simulation of the anthropogenic aerosols over South Asia and their effects on Indian summer monsoon

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1633-1647

  Ji, Zhenming ^a,b,c   Kang, Shichang ^a   Zhang, Dongfeng ^d   Zhu, Chunzi ^e   Wu, Jia ^b   Xu, Ying ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Shanxi Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate effect; Indian summer monsoon; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 79954570078     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0982-0     Document Type: Article

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